Taang! Records

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Taang! Records is an American independent label . Curtis Casella founded it in Boston in 1984 to give the local hardcore scene an opportunity to release sound carriers. The label name is made up of the first letters of the words "Teen Agers Are No Good!" (German about: "Teenagers are no good!") together. In the mid-1990s, Casella and the label moved to San Diego , California .

Taang concentrates musically! Records on genres such as punk , hardcore , indie rock or ska punk . The most important bands include Gang Green , Poison Idea and the early Lemonheads . The publications of Taang! in the late 1980s, among other things, by American College Radio , which, in contrast to commercial broadcasters, played genres such as punk or hardcore.

In the American documentary American Hardcore from 2006, label founder Curtis Casella has his say , along with other representatives of the early hardcore scene.

Bands (selection)

• Battalion of Saints
• Buck-O-Nine
• Bullet LaVolta
• Dropkick Murphys
• Gang Green
• The lemonheads
• Keith Levene
• Mission of Burma
• Negative approach
• Negative FX
• Poison Idea
• The 4 skins
• The Adicts
• The Exploited
• The FU's
• The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
• The Ruts
• Spacemen 3
• Stars and Stripes
• Stiff Little Fingers

Web links

• Official website
• Taang! Records at Discogs

Individual evidence

1. ↑ StrangeReaction.com: An Interview With Curtis Casella. Retrieved May 12, 2018 . 
2. ↑ TheVinylDistrict.com: Graded on a Curve: Taang! Records: The First 10 Singles. Retrieved September 25, 2016 .